Three from Bacolod City Top Nursing Board Exams

Three students from Bacolod City schools are among the topnotchers in the June 2007 nurse licensure examination, the results of which were announced by the Professional Regulation Commission yesterday.

In eighth place were Ma. Azucena Lacson Abella of West Negros College and Raymund John Yelo Ang of the University of Saint La Salle with passing rates of 86.20 percent. In 10th place was Mary Anne Real Reynes of Riverside College with 85.80 percent.

A total of 31,275 (or 48 percent) of the 64,909 first-timers, repeaters, and voluntary retakers of all the subjects, passed the June 2007 nursing licensure exam, the PRC announced. The PRC said 248 (or 73.8 percent) out of 336 retakers of the examination based on a decision of the Court of Appeals, also passed. read more >>